This directory features distinguished scientists and engineers who have volunteered to serve as a resource to the OSA Student Chapters and Local Sections. As part of their benefits, each Chapter and Section may invite one traveling lecturer per year.
Listings are sorted alphabetically by last name and include possible discussion topics and corresponding Optics Classification and Indexing Scheme (OCIS) codes. Please follow these steps to prepare to host a traveling lecturer.
Are you an active OSA member who’s interested in becoming a Traveling Lecturer? Complete the Traveling Lecturer Participation Form to join our esteemed list of invited speakers! If you are not already an OSA member, please email membership@osa.org.
"B" = OSA Board Officer Please note: This speaker is an OSA Board Officer. Please contact OSA staff at chaptersandsections@osa.org before making your request directly to the lecturer.
"F" = OSA Fellow Member
Mario Agio Mohammad S. Alam Tamrat Alemayehu Andrea Alu Emmanuel A. Anagnostakis Stefan Andersson-Engels Pedro Andres Petros Aslanyan Turki Bakhsh James C. Bergquist Irving J. Bigio David J. Brady Robert P. Breault Misha Brodsky Thomas G. Brown Juan Capmany Howard Carmichael Connie Chang-Hasnain Kin Seng Chiang Fow-Sen Choa Kent D. Choquette Yun C. Chung Wanli Chithe Steven Cundiff Kevin Curtis Charles W. Clark Martijn de Sterke Peter J. Delfyett Eustace L. Dereniak Silvano Donati Jean-luc Doumont Jonathan P. Dowling Frank Duarte John Dudley Benjamin Eggleton Göran Einarsson Andrew Edet Ekpenyong Jonathan Ellis Shaoul Ezekiel Charles M. Falco Philippe M. Fauchet Michael A. Fiddy Costas Fotakis John T. Fourkas
Hernando Garcia Vladimir I. Gavrilenko Azriel Genack Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega Angela M. Guzman G. Ronald Hadley Joseph W. Haus David Helie Bruce Horwitz Howard C. Howland Steven L. Jacques Chennupati Jagadish Daniel F. V. James Charles Joenathan Henry Kapteyn Bernard Kippelen Yuri Kivshar Prem Kumar Gershon Kurizki Akhlesh Lakhtakia Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Edmund Lam Byoungho Lee Gong-Ru Lin Yannick Keith Lize Carlos Lopez-Mariscal Virendra N. Mahajan Joseph Mait Walter Makous Masud Mansuripur Seth R. Marder Arthur R. McGurn Colin J. Mckinstrie Igor Meglinski Pierre Meystre Margaret Murnane Mikhail A. Noginov Donald C. O'Shea Bishnu P. Pal Ci-Ling Pan
Xiaochuan Pan Natarajan Panchanatham David M. Pepper Mauro Fernandes Pereira Richard W. Peterson Manijeh Razeghi William T. Rhodes Bruce Richman Jacob Robinson Jannick Rolland Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri Barry Sanders Jose Sasian Joseph Shaw Barry L. Shoop K. Alan Shore Markus W. Sigrist Rajpal S. Sirohi H. Philip Stahl George Stegeman William C. Stwalley Eric A. Swanson Grover A. Swartzlander, Jr. Sergey Tarapov Malvin Carl Teich Kevin Thompson Elias Towe Ken-ichi Ueda Konstantin Vodopyanov Alex Vitkin Dong-Xue (Michael) Wang Ronald R.Willey Rachel Won James C. Wyant Philip J. Wyatt Leonid Yaroslavsky Jun Ye Paul Kit-Lai Yu Yuri Zakharov